Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Boadilla del Monte - Madrid - Spain, is a Spanish public university with 22 schools, all of them of engineering character, and roughly 35.000 students. UPM and the School of Computing are ranked among the best Engineering & IT universities in Spain. QS ranks UPM 127th in Engineering & IT worldwide. Currently a mater program in Software Engineering at the School of Computing attract around 30 international student. UPM has a long tradition of agreements with Latin American universities, and almost 70% of the students of the local Master course in SE are now from Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela).
The UPM also has joint projects and doctorate programmes with Latin American universities, and has already used scholarship programmes like Tempus (SOFTWORLD) or Erasmus to attract students to our existing courses.

Expertise and role in the project
UPM has long experience in software usability, requirement engineering and experiment replications and generalization in SE. UPM has a long tradition of agreements with Latin American universities, and almost 70% of the students of the local Master course in SE are now from Latin American countries The UPM also has joint projects and doctorate programmes with Latin American universities, in particular, the UPM has set up joint doctorate programmes with universities in Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, etc. In addition, the UPM has already used scholarship programmes like Tempus (SOFTWORLD) or Erasmus to attract students to our existing courses. At UPM, all module managers are holders of the Ministry of Quality Teaching Recognition46, which is awarded to professors whose teaching quality is endorsed by the department and the students. Prof. Natalia Juristo (g-index 20 – h-index 9) is full professor at UPM and former coordinator of EMSE. She has worked at several organizations, such as the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and the European Space Agency (ESA) in Italy.
The presence of UPM as past coordinator of EMSE ensures continuity of the didactic offer.